O unity of threefold light - Metrophanes of Smyrna

O unity of threefold light, 

Send out thy loveliest ray. 

And scatter our transgression's night, 

And turn it into day! 

The Amores: Elegy IX - Ovid

Nape, skilled at binding the straggling locks and arranging them in order, 

and not deserving to be reckoned among the female slaves; 

known, too, by experience to be successful in the contrivances of the stealthy night, 

and clever in giving the signals; 

An Egg and a River - Marial Awendit

Am I the best candidate to throw

A boiled egg into the Nile?

I remember breaking

A gourd full of water,

ln the past - Salif Keïta

ln the past, no one questioned to you

ln the past, no one questioned to me

ln the past, that‘s how it used to be

ln the past, whatever happened

ln the past, no one wanted to know

I thought of walking round and round a space - Seamus Heaney

I thought of walking round and round a space

Utterly empty, utterly a source

Where the decked chestnut tree had lost its place

In the Land of Art - Anselm Hollo

the artists

work on the art farm.

The Lord is an ocean of oneness - Sultan Bahu

The Lord is an ocean of oneness

in which lovers swim as they please, free of care.

One Year After - Claude McKay

I

Not once in all our days of poignant love,

Did I a single instant give to thee

My undivided being wholly free.

The myth of the streets - Tarik Sujat

Bearing countless tyre tracks on its chest

The songs of this city will cease one day.

For You - Agha Shahid Ali

Did we run out of things or just a name for you?

Above us the sun doubles its acclaim for you.